Many PC users running one of Windows often need programs that monitor your computer.

Such people most often are bosses at various levels, who subordinate from several people to several dozen and even hundreds of employees working mainly in offices and stores, jealous husbands or wives (girls or boys), and parents of children.

In the modern world, it is quite difficult to monitor what a person does on the Internet on a smartphone, but it is much easier to monitor a user’s actions on a PC that is accessed by several people.

Let's look at seven applications that will help collect data about the user's activity on a computer running .

We do not compile a top list, do not evaluate applications and choose the best, but only invite you to familiarize yourself with the current spies, which are regularly updated and supported.

For your information! Spying on someone’s actions on a computer is an interference in a person’s personal life, so you shouldn’t do it unless absolutely necessary, and if you decide to take such a step, be sure to notify everyone you follow about it.

LightLogger

The application is developed by one person and is updated regularly. Great for home use.

By home we mean monitoring the activity of family members or acquaintances who may come to visit, so that something can be done from your computer do it on the Internet.

LightLogger's capabilities include all the classic spy features. It allows you to monitor keystrokes on the keyboard and display data for each program, which will show what messages a person entered in which application, and display all his passwords and logins.

Web monitoring records the history of visiting sites with the time spent on the page.

Invisible

An important advantage of an elite spy is absolute secrecy. Not only does it not create shortcuts and not appear in the taskbar and tray, but it also hides its process from the Task Manager and does not even place the shortcut in the list of frequently launched ones.

Due to the daily update of the program core, it is invisible to all antiviruses and anti-keyloggers.

Keystroke recording

Keylogger monitors every keystroke on your keyboard and every click on your mouse.

With these functions, while remaining in the shadows, the utility will intercept all typed messages, email texts, electronic documents, will collect everything search queries and login details accounts various Internet pages.

The program code is based on the use of Low-level driver assembler, which starts before the Windows graphical shell, which makes it possible to find out the password for the account.

Getting browser history

No popular Internet browser will hide the navigation history from view. It’s easy to track the Internet activity of children and employees with a time stamp (when they visited the site, how much time they spent).

Recording chats

As for instant messengers, Elite Keylogger records messages from each program (ICQ clients, ) and mail agents in order to provide you with information about who is being corresponded with and through what on your computer.

Remote monitoring

After collecting data, reports can be sent to the specified email or an FTP server, making it possible to get acquainted with the actions of subordinates, a wife or a child, while being far from the computer where the keylogger works. So, relatives will be more careful, and employees will spend less time playing or playing games.

Ways to receive reports

The information received can be stored on the computer’s hard drive, sent by email or FTP, sent via email, and even secretly copied to a connected or. The size of logs is not limited.

Other options

The developers did not refuse screenshots, recording all running applications over time, their activity and work in background. Elite Keylogger's clipboard is also monitored.

Among the reviewed and similar programs, it is difficult to choose a clear leader. The functionality of most tracking utilities is similar; only a few developers try to bribe the client with the presence of unique functions, increased program secrecy, design and work with reports.

How to monitor employees, monitor children or monitor a person at a computer?

It is difficult to imagine the everyday life of a modern person without using a computer or mobile devices connected to the global network and used daily to receive and process information for personal and business purposes. Computers have become a part of the lives of not only adults, but also teenagers and children who spend several hours on the Internet every day.

Modern schoolchildren from the first grades learn to use computer technologies and actively use them for educational and entertainment purposes. Unfortunately, the Internet is flooded not only with workshops on solving problems in physics or mathematics, which do not pose a threat to the fragile child’s psyche. Global network contains countless unsafe websites, including extremist, sectarian and adult sites, which can cause serious harm to the normal development of a child as a person and lead to problems in the future. Agree, you would not want your child to study occult rituals or view pages of dubious content instead of doing homework after school.

Due to the above, many parents may have a very reasonable question: "How to protect your child from harmful influence Internet?", “How to find out what a child does in his free time at the computer?”, “Who does your beloved child communicate with?”, “ How to organize supervision of children?».

There are a lot of programs for monitoring computer activity and spyware, but, as a rule, they are all paid, reduce the performance of the computer and are easily detected even by inexperienced users. In reality, you will only be able to view the contents of log files with data entered on the keyboard and, in some cases, screenshots. In addition, you can view these log files only on the computer where these files were created. Those. if you are in a remote location, you will not be able to view these files. Of course you can customize automatic sending these logs to mail or a server, but this is associated with additional difficulties and waste of time. Besides, it's just inconvenient.

For full control over children, it can be very convenient to use programs remote access to a computer via the Internet. Some of these programs are very easy to set up, or to be more precise, they practically do not require it and are able to instantly establish a connection with any computer connected to the Internet.

One such program is Ammyy Admin. And despite the fact that the main application area of ​​the program is the provision of remote technical support, features and versatility of Ammyy Admin make it easy to use it as a tool remote control for the children. When it comes to business, monitoring and control of employees is also one of the areas of application of the program.

Why should you use Ammyy Admin for remote control of children?

1. You can connect to any PC in a few seconds.
2. You can view the image of the remote computer from any other computer connected to the Internet. No tedious settings, registrations or installations!
3. Ammyy Admin bypasses all known firewalls and antiviruses (which cannot be said about programs keyloggers) and does not require installation. At correct settings It will be practically impossible to detect Ammyy Admin.
4. Your child will never realize that someone is watching him in real time.
5. You can interactively enable voice chat and listen to what is happening on the remote PC side.
6. Ammyy Admin is completely free for home use, provided that you have not exceeded the usage limit of the free version.

How to set up child monitoring using Ammyy Admin?

So, the procedure for setting up the program is extremely simple and will not take more than a minute.

What to do on remote computer, which we will monitor:

What to do on the computer from which we are monitoring:

If you want to organize employee control by monitoring their work computers, then the laws of some countries require you to warn them about this. In any case, it will be useful to do this, because... knowing that the computer is under surveillance, the employee will not engage in extraneous activities on the work computer, which will reduce the risk of the computer being infected with viruses and leaks confidential information, and will also increase useful operating time.

AeroAdmin – is a small application working without installation or configuration. It is launched on local admin and remote client computer and is ready to work, out of the box.

(!) AeroAdmin - remote desktop software that allows you to connect to computers over the Internet or in a LAN from any place and see who is doing what at any moment.

Aside from employee monitoring, the software provides full control to remote computers, including mouse and keyboard control, file transfer etc. You can work with a distant computer as if you were sitting in front of it.

Why AeroAdmin?

FREE for home and business use zero-configuration application

You can be in touch with your employees at any time

Your staff become more responsible at work, as they know they are monitored

You can collaborate interactively

How to configure AeroAdmin for remote employee monitoring?

On employee computer (client):

1. and run AeroAdmin

2. Choose Connection ⇒ Access rights in main menu

3. - Click add in access rights window

4. Type in "ANY" into "ID" and "Name or description" fields. Setup password (you will use it to connect this employee computer). Click Ok.

5. Run AeroAdmin as Windows Service in main menu Connection ⇒ Service.

Configuration of employee computer is finished. You can close AeroAdmin.

On your (operator) computer:

1. and run AeroAdmin

2. Input ID of the computer you want to monitor, as shown on the picture below

3. Choose necessary connection mode, ex "View only"

Personal Monitor
YOUR CHOICE
For parental controls

Best program computer tracking

Protection for your child

personal monitor for windows

Free version
for 3 days

Very convenient and intuitive interface

In order for anyone to use the program, its creators gave each interface action a simple name. Here you will not find complex technical terms, and the display of settings, work process and monitoring of computer tracking results will be clear even to those who have just begun to get acquainted with the PC.

Recording information entered from the keyboard

It is rare that a computer at home or in the office does not have a keyboard. The surveillance program records words and phrases in any language, as well as symbols, in its database.

Monitoring the contents of the clipboard

The great advantage of the program is the ability to covertly monitor even seemingly insignificant operations. This way you will always know the contents of the clipboard, without which regular user while working on a computer simply cannot get by.

Screenshots (screenshots) after a specified period of time

Monitoring intermediate stages of work on a PC also includes screenshots. Together with textual "intelligence" they help to get a complete impression of what is happening on the computer on which the program is installed. Depending on the settings, screenshots can display what is happening on the PC, either at regular intervals or with each mouse click.

Monitoring visited sites

Are you surprised where your traffic is going? Monitoring your computer will help you answer this question. You will receive a detailed report of all sites visited by the user. In addition, a list of addresses where your child accessed the Internet will easily explain why you are once again called to school. Covert surveillance By visiting websites, the Internet will also make it clear why an employee of your company did not have time to prepare the monthly report on time.

Visible/invisible operating mode

Depending on the tasks you set, the monitoring program can work in both visible and invisible mode. In invisible mode, keylogger is not noticed not only by the users themselves, but also by those installed on computers antivirus programs(for this you must add Mipko Personal Monitor to the exceptions).

Monitoring program startup and termination

A significant addition to the picture of what is happening on a particular computer is monitoring the startup and closing of programs. This function can be useful both for finding out the causes of any technical problems, and for determining the timeliness or untimeliness of using this or that software application.

Monitor computer startup/shutdown/reboot

Another function of the monitoring program, designed to reveal the mysteries of PC behavior. Monitoring the computer's on/off/reboot allows you not to miss a single detail in the chain of events occurring with the machine/machines.

Full multi-user support

The computer tracking program that I will talk about in this article is unique in its kind, as it has many advantages that competitors do not have. It's called Expert Home 4. Here's what's special about this tool:

• The program is completely free and works without any restrictions.
• Interface, help and support in Russian.
• Combines many tracking functions.
• It works in invisible mode and is launched using a password and a secret key combination.
• Allows you to encrypt received reports and send them over the Internet.
• The antivirus will not complain.

This computer tracking program is really very interesting and worthy of attention. So, fewer words, let's get down to business!

Expert Home 4 - computer monitoring program

After downloading the installation file, run it. In the first window you need to select a language and click “Next”.

Then agree to the license and click Next.

Now comes the fun part. The computer tracking program will open using a secret key combination consisting of four keys. The first three are Ctrl + Shift + Alt, and the fourth you set yourself. This can be any letter that can be selected from the list.

In the same window there is a field in which you need to enter a password, which will be requested after entering the secret key combination.

After selecting a letter and entering a password, click Next.

Check that all data is correct and click “Install”.

Wait until the installation of Expert Home 4 is completed, and in the last window, click the “Close” button. All! The program has already started working and monitors all user actions. As you will notice, there are no traces of the program running.

To launch a computer monitoring program and view its report, you need to enter a secret key combination. After this, a window will appear in which you should write down the password you created during installation. And then you will see the program interface - the Expert Home 4 control center. It consists of two sections - “Reports” and “Advanced”.

Let me first look at the “Reports” section:

Keyboard. This is a keylogger, that is, here is a report of every key pressed on the keyboard. You can see what the user wrote and in what program. It is possible to choose the date of the report.

Screenshots. The computer tracking program periodically takes hidden screenshots of the screen and you can view them here. It is also possible to select the archive date. In addition, you can manage screenshots using the buttons below.

Programs. Displays which programs were launched and when. You can see the program title, the name of the executable file and other data useful for analysis.

Nutrition. Here you can analyze when the computer was turned on and off.

Activity. The activity of computer users is displayed.

Now I’ll look at the “Advanced” block, which also consists of several important sections.

Internet monitoring. Computer tracking software allows you to transfer report files over the Internet in encrypted form. They can be viewed in the Softex (program developer) file storage. That is, reports can be viewed remotely. To get started, click the “Allow remote tracking” button.